Geek Notes 2005-08-28

Sunday, August 28, 2005 @ 03:38 PM

Now that Finn is basically a full time walker and is starting to show that famous attitude that all of the Provost’s seem to possess, we finally decided to turn his room into a real little boy’s room. Out with the “guest room” furniture and in with the little boy stuff. We took a trip to Ikea yesterday to start scouting furniture and colors. I’m&nbsp_place_holder;sure Emily will be posting more details as we proceed.

Here are a few things that have been collecting in my “blog this” collection…

Monad Team Blog - Yes, I’m still hooked on Msh (aka Monad). Now the team has a shared blog so those who don’t have their own spout can share the Monad goodness.

Freedom Languages - An excellent philosophical article that compares “safety languages” with “freedon languages”. A quote: “Freedom languages are those languages that put the individual programmer at the center of their philosophical world.&nbsp_place_holder; They work hard to remove any language constructs that reduce programmer freedom, and add the most powerful constructs available.”

OpenSpace - Martin Fowler explains some of the history and background of Open Space… a very cool ‘agile’ way of doing conferences and get-togethers.

Cracking Software To Run Non-Admin&nbsp_place_holder;- Lee Holmes does something I’ve always wanted to do… actually crack someone’s binaries to fix their LUA stupidity. Yeah, it may be a violatio of the license agreement, but as far as I’m concerned it isn’t being done for profit or to steal IP but to fix a bug.

Mio GPS SmartPhone - Hmmm… I was thinking I was gonna wait for a Q-Phone, but I may have to get one of these instead. [via Rory]

Peter Provost is a life-long-learner, hacker, maker, agilista,
musician and heavy metal fan. He lives in Colorado with his wife
and two children and works as a Program Manager Lead on Microsoft's
Visual Studio ALM tools.